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James Thurber (1894–1961)

Auteur van Het Verborgen Leven van Walter Mitty en andere verhalen

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Born in Columbus, Ohio, Thurber was blinded in one eye in a childhood accident. He attended Ohio State University but left without earning a degree. In 1925 he moved to New York City, where he joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1927 at the urging of his friend E. B. White. For the rest of his toon meer lifetime, Thurber contributed to the magazine his highly individual pieces and those strange, wry, and disturbing pen-and-ink drawings of "huge, resigned dogs, the determined and sometimes frightening women, the globular men who try so hard to think so unsuccessfully." The period from 1925, when the New Yorker was founded, until the death of its creator-editor, Harold Ross, in 1951, was described by Thurber in delicious and absorbing detail in The Years with Ross (1959). Of his two great talents, Thurber preferred to think of himself primarily as a writer, illustrating his own books. He published "fables" in the style of Aesop (see Vol. 2) and La Fontaine (see Vol. 2)---usually with a "barbed tip of contemporary significance"---children's books, several plays (two Broadway hits, one successful musical revue), and endless satires and parodies in short stories or full-length works. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," included in My World---and Welcome to It (1942), is probably his best-known story and continues to be frequently anthologized. T. S. Eliot described Thurber's work as "a form of humor which is also a way of saying something serious." (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

Werken van James Thurber

The 13 Clocks (1950) 1,912 exemplaren
Many Moons (1943) 1,719 exemplaren
My Life and Hard Times (1933) 1,153 exemplaren
The Wonderful O (1957) 804 exemplaren
Thurber: Writings and Drawings (1996) 552 exemplaren
The Years with Ross (1957) 524 exemplaren
Lanterns & Lances (1960) 524 exemplaren
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Other Pieces (1945) — Auteur — 468 exemplaren
Thurber Country (1953) 430 exemplaren
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated (1940) — Illustrator — 383 exemplaren
My World—and Welcome to It (1937) 354 exemplaren
The Beast in Me and Other Animals (1948) 328 exemplaren
The White Deer (1945) 326 exemplaren
Thurber's Dogs (1901) 295 exemplaren
Alarms and Diversions (1957) 278 exemplaren
James Thurber: 92 Stories (1985) 240 exemplaren
Further Fables for Our Time (1676) 210 exemplaren
The Thurber Album (1952) 192 exemplaren
Selected Letters of James Thurber (1980) 181 exemplaren
The Great Quillow (1944) 178 exemplaren
The 13 Clocks & The Wonderful O (1962) 174 exemplaren
Thurber on Crime (1991) — Auteur — 173 exemplaren
The Genius of James Thurber (1997) 156 exemplaren
Let Your Mind Alone! (1707) 149 exemplaren
Credos and Curios (1962) 106 exemplaren
The Male Animal (1940) 45 exemplaren
The Tiger Who Would Be King (2014) 41 exemplaren
A Thurber carnival. (1962) 35 exemplaren
21 Essential American Short Stories (2011) — Medewerker — 24 exemplaren
Collected Fables (2019) 17 exemplaren
The Catbird Seat (1942) 16 exemplaren
Cream of Thurber (1939) 15 exemplaren
The Night the Ghost Got In (1983) 11 exemplaren
The Unicorn in the Garden (1972) 11 exemplaren
Stories and Fables for Our Time (1988) 7 exemplaren
The Fifth New Yorker Album (1932) 7 exemplaren
My World and Welcome to it (1942) 4 exemplaren
The Executive's in a Word Book (1963) 4 exemplaren
The Greatest Man in the World (2004) 4 exemplaren
The World of James Thurber (1989) 4 exemplaren
Lachen mit Thurber (1964) 3 exemplaren
Thurber (1996) 3 exemplaren
Ein Mond für Leonore (1998) 2 exemplaren
A Thurber garland 2 exemplaren
A Thurber Carnival 2 exemplaren
The years with Ross 2 exemplaren
You Could Look It Up 2 exemplaren
De tretten ure 1 exemplaar
The Rgurber Album 1 exemplaar
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The Cases of Blue Ploermell (2021) 1 exemplaar
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Thurber on Humor (1994) 1 exemplaar
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Storie e parole. (1960) 1 exemplaar

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